Does having lots of rep make you look bad!?

heres what i dont agree with.

Gold line(nothing against him) has 600 posts and 3 dots.

dejkirkby has like 2000 posts and only 2 dots.

make sense?

lol the king has 300 posts and 3 dots!

Well JKKDARK has lots of spam posts though. (No offense.) It really isn't anything to be taken seriously, and if you beg for rep, then you don't get what it's about.

Totally spot-on there V_f

I don't look at rep now because it's 100% meaningless. Hell, some of you junkers made multiple accounts to rep yourselves with -_-.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by theICE_MAN

heres what i dont agree with.

Gold line(nothing against him) has 600 posts and 3 dots.

dejkirkby has like 2000 posts and only 2 dots.

make sense?

---

I'm not saying this is the case for these users, but you must also realize that someone making 300 extremely good posts should always have more rep than someone making 3000 spam posts (again, I don't mean that to be representative of those two users specifically, just in general).

before i was ever noticed i helped noobs out... thats all i did and never got any cred, just PMs out of the ass saying how do you do this, never once did i refuse to help someone, but i figured the whole rep scene is blowing up maybe i should get on the train, and than I might have something to show for it...now i can feel at ease knowing that all the stuff i did wasnt for nothing, seeing as i have helped well over 100s of noobs that have had problems, and all i ever wanted was recognition as such

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Chameleon

before i was ever noticed i helped noobs out... thats all i did and never got any cred, just PMs out of the ass saying how do you do this, never once did i refuse to help someone, but i figured the whole rep scene is blowing up maybe i should get on the train, and than I might have something to show for it...now i can feel at ease knowing that all the stuff i did wasnt for nothing, seeing as i have helped well over 100s of noobs that have had problems, and all i ever wanted was recognition as such

---

I'm glad you got the recognition you desired, but you said it yourself, you didn't get the recognition for helping people, you got it for rep whoring.
I, personally, go along with quzar on this one. I'm not remotely interested in the rep system, but for the interest of the site newcomers, it can be seen as a guide for who to go to when they need help.

EDIT: This is not a plea for extra rep!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by theICE_MAN

about 6 months ago NO ONE had much rep and then all of the sudden it became a fad to have lots of rep.

i get rep all the time saying "rep trade" and crap like that... i think if you dont have a lot of posts and you have a lot of rep then yes it does make you look bad.

---

The rep system never worked till kaiser got around to implement it, I always tried to +rep people but it would just take me to there profile page.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Gizmo356

The rep system never worked till kaiser got around to implement it, I always tried to +rep people but it would just take me to there profile page.

---

That's not true, it worked, just not very well (I think it worked when we first witched to vbulletin, but then conked out after some update).

I know when he first revamped the rep system and DS69 put up a list of the top rep's I was in there with like 45 points or something (rep from 05).

when someone had 1 dot and it said "such and such is a wise old git" it looked impressive. now nothing really does. Most of my rep is from reviews or repping or helping people out or saying funny shit. i'm sure dejkirkby would have had a huge rep had he kept posting as much as he used to. same goes for v_f.